Mustafa Karasu

Mustafa Karasu was a leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Biography
Mustafa Karasu was from a family of Shi'ite Muslim Turks, but he aligned himself with rebellious Kurds as the leader of the Alevi Shi'ite forces fighting alongside the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He was imprisoned after the 1980 coup d'etat in Turkey, but after his release, he joined the politburo of the PKK, and he became a member of the executive committee of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan umbrella organization.